Two Cow Garage — Sweet Saint Me. Out October 26, Suburban Home Records. Two Cow Garage is the best rock band you’ve never heard of. I’ve been waiting for Sweet Saint Me since last December, before Two Cow even started recording it, when I stood in Tir Na Nog and drank Maker’s Mark and talked…
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preview: the dig & henry clay people @ local 506
Let me tell you what: take two bands, one whose name is a common verb, and the other whose name is two proper names and the word “people”, and you have two bands that are not the easiest to Google. Try to find information on Brooklyn’s power-techno-pop quartet the Dig, and what you get is…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in september
Two sentence reviews of reasonably new albums I listened to in September: Various Artists — Wisco: A Wisconsin Tribute to Wilco’s Summerteeth: I love this. I mean it — I love this. Masterminded by Muzzle of Bees’ Ryan Matteson, this is a track-by-track covering of Wilco’s Summerteeth (aka my favorite Wilco album) by local Wisconsin…
superchunk — majesty shredding
Superchunk — Majesty Shredding. Out 9/14, Merge Records. On Monday night, I made a metaphorical horrified face at Ash over IM, at the thought that someone my age or older had literally never heard of Superchunk before this week. I’m not judging! I was simply surprised, because at the age of 14, Superchunk put out Foolish and some…
embarrassing fruits — frontier justice
Embarrassing Fruits — Frontier Justice. Out 9/21, Trekky Records. Last fall, I heard Joe and Lee of the Fruits do a cover of Big Star’s “September Gurls”, acoustic and imbued with an obvious deep affection for both the song and the band they were covering. It was at the Trekky Milltown showcase, and I remember…
ryan bingham — junky star
Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses — Junky Star. Out 8/31, Lost Highway Records. I walked out of a Ryan Bingham set once. I’m not proud; I just want y’all to have all the facts. Two and a half years ago, he played the Local 506, American Aquarium opened, and I won free tickets to…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in august
Two sentence reviews of new albums I listened to in August. Behind the jump: Lost in the Trees, Arcade Fire, The Goodnight Loving, Frontier Ruckus, Dax Riggs, the Dead Brothers. Griffin House — The Learner: House’s follow-up to 2008’s stellar Flying Upside Down is a bit of a let-down; he starts and finishes strong, but…
i can lick any sonofabitch in the house — sounds of dying
I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House — Sounds of Dying. Out soon if not now, Suburban Home Records. Okay, so: sometimes when you’re a teenager or a 20-something and you’re really anxious and angry all the time, and you wake up in your late 20s and you realize that all that energy going…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in july
pink flag @ cat’s cradle, originally uploaded by minervacat. If I’d saved Gold Motel for this month, I could have made this the all-new-albums-by-people-who-used-to-record-on-Fueled-By-Ramen-now-playing-with-other-bands edition. And Steel Train toured with the Hush Sound once. Alas! Instead it’s just albums I listened to in July: The Young Veins — Take A Vacation!: do you ever feel…
two sentence reviews of new albums i listened to in june
Two sentence reviews of new albums released in and/or listened to by me during June: Blitzen Trapper — Destroyer of the Void: This album is what would happen if Queen and the Band had a musical baby, and it’s pretty awesome. I like this more than Wild Mountain Nation but less than Furr, so we’ll…
brand new kind of photography 